Friday, October 16, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the Indictment of ANTHONY ROBINSON (“A. ROBINSON”), age 66; AUDREY HARRIS (“HARRIS”), age 53; JERRY SCHAFFER (“SCHAFFER”), age 65; and KEISHIRA ROBINSON (“K. ROBINSON”), age 25, of New Orleans, Louisiana. These four defendants were charged in a three-count federal…
By Matt Sledge | Staff Writer/NOLA.com | October 14, 2020 In years past, Keva Landrum’s race for Orleans Parish district attorney might have been more of a walk. She’s the only leading candidate with experience as a prosecutor. She was the first woman to lead the office, as interim DA from 2007 to 2008. And…
By WDSU Digital Team | WDSU | October 2, 2020 A new investigative unit within the New Orleans Police Department will aim to combat a more than 60% increase in murders, Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said Friday. The startling uptick in fatal and nonfatal shootings compared to last year reflects a similar increase in cities across…
PRESS RELEASE | October 1, 2020 | Contact: Ken Daley, Public Information For Immediate Release Members of a joint New Orleans task force of cold-case rape prosecutors and investigators were honored Thursday (Oct. 1) at District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office, where they received the prestigious 2020 Excellence in Law Enforcement award from the Metropolitan Crime…
By Kimberly Curth | WVUE | September 24, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – The FBI is now involved in the murder investigation of a New Orleans man at the center of a Federal investigation. Someone killed Cornelius Garrison just days after the Feds indicted him in a sprawling probe involving staged tractor-trailer accidents. The FBI confirms to…
BY MATT SLEDGE | NOLA.COM | September 23, 2020 Orleans Parish district attorney candidates are set to speak at a forum Wednesday night hosted by a coalition of groups backing a dramatic set of policy changes, a sign that progressive criminal justice reformers have secured a prominent platform to shape the Nov. 3 election. All…
By WWL-Radio | September 23, 2020 State Trooper Chris Hollingsworth, who was set to be fired for his role in the death of a Black man in police custody, has died from injuries sustained in a single-car crash near Monroe. The FBI is investigating whether Hollingsworth and other troopers covered up how Ronald Greene of…
By JIM MUSTIAN | Associated Press | September 21, 2020 A Louisiana state trooper was critically injured early Monday in a single-vehicle highway crash that came hours after learning he would be fired for his role last year in the in-custody death of a Black man. Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth received word Sunday that State Police…
BY KATELYN UMHOLTZ | NOLA.COM | SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 Nine more people have been indicted on federal charges in a scheme to crash vehicles into buses and big trucks in the New Orleans area, in order to defraud insurance companies. They join 19 other defendants already under indictment. Insurers have paid hundreds of thousands of…
Friday, September 18, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the indictment of nine additional defendants bringing the total to twenty-eight charged for intentionally staging automobile accidents. Today’s indictment charges CORNELIUS GARRISON (“GARRISON”), age 54, of New Orleans, Louisiana; DONIESHA GIBSON (“GIBSON”), age 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana; CHANDRIKA…